Slow down, back up and lets start at the begining.
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Seriously. What does it TAKE? I put up a poem on the PPT art gallery. 26 or so views and no one responds. This wouldn't bug me as much if I hadn't put "Please RESPOND" in the title! GAAR! Do I have to offer 100,000 Neopoints to responders?
This is the curse of the gallery. I often get quite a few views on my artwork, but very few responses. I like to think it as a "Look but not too hard" kinda thing. People just give it a glance and if it really interests them, MAYBE they'll post, and even then... *shrug*.
It's not that people aren't responding, but artwork is a hard thing to judge and many people haven't a clue as to what to say in a response. Often I find myself torn over a lack of words before I just turn away and give up.
People read, people view. But responses to artwork can be a very personal thing; which can turn into a very difficult thing to put into words. Poetry i've found is very good at evoking such an emotion, same with stories. The pictures on the gallery... *shrug* maybe not so much, but the emotions still there. I think it's easier to comment on a picture simply because it's all there. But a story or a poem forces you to think more to (in my mind) respond properly.
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On the Word Games and Contests board, you have to make the winners billionaires before more than four people will enter! I was giving a 10k prize to the winner of my set contest. And what happens? When they win, nobody posts their username because they are afraid to respond to my posts because then I'll think "Oh good, people pay attention to me" and be happy! AAAARG!
I offered what seemed to be a lower rate and then some. I offered an art trade on the set contests i've done, and a lower amount of NP. I got... something like 7 entries. And i'm ok with that. Often the topics chosen can be quite difficult to judge, or hard for people to do. Mine was very specific this time round, so I think that scared some people off. But i'm happy with the results.
You don't need to be a billionaire, (i'm certainly not!), you just need to know how to word things and maybe offer some sort of incentive off of the site. If you write poetry, how about a epic ballad about the person who won the contest? *shrug* That sort of thing.
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If you're gonna make me a set or something, don't make it too big for the rules. If you're in a set contest, you ought to know how big the limit is- not to insult your artwork, Paola. What bugs me is I've seen people with sets the same size who DON'T get their sets taken away.
Now see, this is what throws me off kilter. If you see someone whose breaking the sig/av limit. Why not report them? I seriously doubt for some reason that having the "Your sig/av is too big" bit ever bothered you before it was done to yourself. And it's quite easy to take off, you go into profile and erase it. Rather then make a huge stink about the issue, why not just solve it quickly without pointing it out to everyone? I honestly wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.
If you had a question as to WHY it was taken out, how about you kindly PM an admin, or a mod. Criticising the way we do our jobs isn't the best way to resolve an issue. I'm sorry, but I really... *sighs* I really feel that there was a better way to resolve this issue.
If your sig isn't too big, put it back in. Just don't add the PPTAAC thing and you should be fine.
Evisceration is a sign of respect.